1935
There are small surprises in life which loom large in contemplation, such as the discovery last night that I had been wearing Yank Price's shirts for some years without credit to the manufacturer, Sero of New Haven. If the truth is to be known, the distaff side of my family has bought them at Richard Oliver's in Bedford, or Harry Ketchel's in Mt. Kisco. Opinion of the shirts and the distaff greatly improved as a result. Yank was part of a table of Thirty-fivers for the New York kick-off of the Alumni Fund at the Commodore. Bankart, as befitted his exalted station as a member of the Alumni Council, graced the head table. The common herd included ArtFisher, Al Brush, Dero Saunders, "Doc"(Phelps) Luria, and me, as well as FritzHormel, who has again undertaken the task of New York area Fund Chairman under the general leadership of Bus Latimer, Class Agent. John Dickey's informal talk did more than I can convey to you to dramatize the crucial need the College has for the financial support provided by the Alumni Fund, and made us all quietly proud of the record which has been achieved in the past and must be improved in the future. No doubt you will hear more about this in the next few months. Be guided accordingly.
Meanwhile, there are a number of items to convey of specific class interest. Our Regional Organization is now virtually comleted with Bill Gahagan taking the responsibility for the San Francisco area. Bill's activities as the spark plug of the California Friends of Robert Frost were recently publicized in "Topics" of the New York Times. Bill returned to Dartmouth as graduate student and instructor in Great Issues from 1948-50, when he became well acquainted with Robert Frost, who was then "poet in residence" at Hanover. Settling in San Francisco many years later, Bill fulfilled his promise to Frost to track down the poet's birthplace and mark it with a placque, although the actual location, assumed to be "a few doors west of the famous cable car turntable at Powell and Market Streets," is still in doubt. Bill has continued his activities to establish the California flavor of Frost by building a Frost Collection for the San Francisco Library, lecturing on the subject and superintending the distribution of a Frost Medallion which has been widely used for poetry prizes and as a memento for individual admirers of the poet.
Back east in Benjamin Franklin country, Al Dodd has begun to pick up the strings for the Philadelphia area. Al is manager of the Casualty, Fidelity and Surety Agency Department of the Travelers Insurance Company there. Since the Twenty-fifth he has had "two more daughters married and now can boast of three fully educated and married and, more or less, off the payroll. I have acquired four grandchildren and this keeps me occupied and happy. Two children still remain at home, the youngest being a boy..." with an eye on Hanover. Al has already started the Philadelphia area moving for '35 as part of the annual Stag Night on March 24.
Most of you know about the Phantom Thirtieth, which is being organized in various parts of the country to assuage the pain of having our real Thirtieth in 1966 but a reminder will do no harm. The New York frolic will be at Charlie Haussermann's on May 22. Arrangements in other parts of the country will be announced by the appropriate Area Chairmen. Keep in touch with them for the details.
Arrangements for the real Thirtieth are proceeding apace under the aegis of HankHawkins. Write him (or me) any suggestions you may have. Hank and Louise are flying to Paris this month, motoring to Rome, then to Tripoli where they will visit daughter Linda Carruthers and see their first grandchild, Donald Wallace Carruthers II. H. Clay IV is in Alaska with Uncle Sam, leaving Deborah at home and Sarah nearby in Arlington, Vt. Deposits of the Claremont Savings Bank have climbed from $1.6 million in 1944 to $5.3 million in 1954 to almost $12 million in 1964, so all is well.
John Masland, Provost of the College, and honorary member of the Class, has just returned from further south than Tripoli. On leave of absence from the College and at the request of the Agency for International Development, he has been directing for Education and World Affairs, New York a study of the human resource needs of nine different African countries and the capabilities of the educational systems to meet these needs particularly in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Tunisia.
George Colton has also sent a note with some news derived from his recent peregrinations. "I rode up on the plane from New York with Ed Hinman one night. He was going to a parents' affair at Holderness where, naturally, he expected to see Headmaster Don Hagerman and Trustee RandStowell." George also talked with Don King in Cincinnati and Cam Duncan in Dallas, as well as seeing Woody Curtis, who was up in Hanover visiting his son. Count, who is due to get his Dartmouth Ph.D. in lune. Count's field, appropriately enough, is mathematics.
In addition to the news about the election of Fritz Beebe, presently chairman of the Washington Post and Newsweek, to a directorship of the Tri-Continental Corp., which has come in from all sides, including the Tear Bag, George Goodman clipped a very interesting interview with Charlie Nayor's ballerina wife, Phyllis, which came out in the Boston Globe recently. Her reactions were sought after a preview of the Bolshoi Ballet video tape as an expert on the subject. "Boston is a tremendous ballet city," she remarked, "in this country, some people view the ballet as sissy activity for the men. The Russians regard the ballet as athletics. Look at these men on the TV screen. They are all brawn and muscle. They are all men. Their dancing is real, hard work." Mrs. Nayor herself practices every day, but her attorney husband, family, and civic duties are blamed by the Globe for keeping her off the stage at the moment.
Other news in the Boston area includes the naming of Doug Ley as chairman of the professional gifts campaign for the-Salvation Army's building fund drive, and the renomination for the Lexington Town Meeting not only of Jim West and Sandy Brown but also Sandy's wife Lois. It looks as if Lexington was in good hands.
Since writing the above, Dud Russell appeared unexpectedly at the door of the office on one of his periodic excursions to New York to sell Atkinson (now ADM) flour to the local bakers. To think that all these years I have been eating bread made with his flour and that the result has filled up those shirts provided by Yank Price.
The wedding reception for Bobby and Frank Heston '65 was at Alumnae House,Smith College, where the groom's father Herb '34 is Director of Development. Onhand for the event were (I to r) Tom Wilson 66 (son of Tom Wilson 35), Bob Blake'65, Al Shepard '65, Ellie Cavanagh '29, Jack Heston '28, Herb, bride and groom, ArtEastman '65, Frank Hankins '65 (son of Frank Hankins '28), and Larry Keesey '65.
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